I like the idea but the site is only in Dutch…
“tenpages.com, for its disruptive new business model that allows aspiring authors to publish the first ten pages of their manuscript on the web. Everyone can buy shares of 5 Euros a piece. When 20.000 shares have been sold within 4 months, the book will be published and distributed.”
A Necessary Ruin: The Story of Buckminster Fuller and the Union Tank Car Dome on Vimeo
Why does the replacement building look like a shed? What happened to the beautiful shapes of the future?
“In Galena, Ill., passers-by might have seen a man in a shabby military greatcoat and slouch hat trudging to work that Thursday morning, as he did every weekday. He was Ulysses Grant, a middle-aged shop clerk in his family’s leather-goods store.”
Really? With a name like that I expected at least royalty.
…but did he forsee his own end?
Paul, the WCup predicting octopus, dies at 2½ – USATODAY.com.
…seriously. That’s enough boring steel building that are too big for their surrounding environment.
London was a brick city of beautiful facades and squares. You prefer this?
“The unspeakable depression of lighting the fires every morning with papers of a year ago, and getting glimpses of optimistic headlines as they go up in smoke.”
Far too true…
Hot desking “is a social experiment that failed” …except in my office!
